AGI is a matter of better architectural design.
The conversation most people are having — bigger models, more parameters, more compute — is looking at the wrong thing.
Look at how the last few decades actually went. The internet happened and software became the new advancement in human capabilities. What was once done manually and on paper now lives on screens and is readily available. Information is now in excess and accessible to anyone. You can get everything a school can give you educationally, or any skill someone can teach you, right on your device. We thought that was big. Then that internet became intelligent. Information and productivity got even better with AI. Right when we thought intelligence was the limit, we started approaching AGI.
When people hear AGI, they jump straight to better models. I think AGI is going to be more about better architecturally assembled intelligent elements — systems that operate in the real world through a physical body, build a model of that world, and continuously update that model as reality changes around them. This is how the human brain works. Specifically the neocortex. Replicating that in AGI would mean a system that learns, optimizes, and solves problems a hundred times faster than any human could.
This direction has come up repeatedly across documentation and research papers over decades. Jeff Hawkins' Thousand Brains Theory is one of the clearest articulations of it.
We should be working on building these elements now. The future is already in its early stages and it is going to be powered by AGI embedded in hard tech.
That combination can give us real abundance. In production, in creativity, in amplification. AGI working alongside us to develop better energy sources, produce in mass, distribute in mass, be productive at scale. And the future of technology is also the relevant, systematic infrastructure solutions that make all of this actually work — amplifying human capabilities and improving global access to innovation. Help us produce more, be more efficient and effective, design what the future looks like rather than slowly craft it, and work alongside AGI to advance the vision of the planet and society we call home. Infrastructural solutions like AI software tools and agents are what help these technology channels work together, get distributed, and actually become accessible at scale.
Infrastructural solutions + AGI + global accessibility to finance, technology, opportunities, innovation, progress, and abundance — is what leads the future of humanity forward.
That is the focus worth narrowing the next few decades on.